Cell-based experiments on The International Space Station help identify how spaceflight affects people and other living ...

"What is it about Mars that has made it so prominent in our culture, almost more than any other celestial object?" ...

Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juno launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 5, 2011, ...

Life may be able to survive beneath the surface of Mars and other planets because of energy generated by cosmic rays, ...

It is one thing to understand that space alters the human body; it is another to see it happen before one’s eyes, on people ...

In 2024, NASA's Mars rover Perseverance collected an unusual rock sample. The rock, named Sapphire Canyon, features white, ...

Acheron Fossae is filled with dramatic landscape features — most notably, its namesake fossae, or fault-like channels that ...

New research published in Nature Communications identifies an iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a brand-new mineral.

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece ...

Recent discoveries from Mars rovers have reignited the debate about the possibility of life on the Red Planet. A ...

Microbes are tiny living things that are found all around us. Also known as microorganisms, they are too small to be seen by ...

New research reveals that cosmic rays may power life deep underground on Mars, Europa, and Enceladus by breaking water into ...